Source: Intel Newsroom

This Tiny Compute Stick Is The Turbo Pascal for AI Inference Programming and Edge Computing

Lately, there has been so much talk about labor shortage in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) industry and people are even talking about creating AI that can generates more AI. With annual wages regularly surpassing the $300,000 mark, being an AI developer is a dream job for many people. According to a report by the Tencent Research Institute, there are just about 300,000 developers worldwide, but the demand for such workers is in millions. Not sure how they came up with the 300,000 figure but there are about 18.2 million software developers worldwide according to Evans Data Corp.

If there are so many software developers out there, why are companies having such a hard time finding AI developers? The report published by Tencent is suggesting the bottleneck here is education. One of the barriers for people to learn and develop AI applications is having access to high end server and cloud. And this reminded me of Turbo Pascal. Borland introduced Turbo Pascal back in November of 1983 at $49.95. The impact was significant as the price barrier that has previously prevented many people from getting into serious programming was broken. Read More...